The Shotwell Collection, 1823-1836; 1842-1888; Cadiz, Ohio
Scope and Contents
Dates
- Majority of material found in 1823-1836; 1842-1888
Creator
- Dewey, Chauncey, 1796-1880 (Person)
Biographical / Historical
Stuart B. Shotwell was born in 1819 in Washington Township, Harrison County, Ohio. He attended Franklin College beginning in 1836, and after graduating he studied law in Cadiz in the law office of Dewey & Stanton. In 1842, he was admitted to the Ohio state bar, and the same year he joined Dewey in a new partnership of Dewey & Shotwell, after the departure of Edwin Stanton. Shotwell carried on the business under his own name after the retirement of Dewey in 1849. In 1851, Shotwell married Nancy Gaston. The couple had five children, including Walter Gaston Shotwell (b. 1856), a lawyer who trained in his father’s firm and later opened his own practice in Cadiz, where this collection was likely stored at one time. Stuart B. Shotwell died in Cadiz on December 3, 1890.
Further Reading:
Henry Howe, Historical Collections of Ohio in Two Volumes: An Encyclopedia of the State, Volume 1 (1902)
Commemorative Biographical Record, Harrison, Ohio (1891)
H.J. Eckley and William T. Perry, eds., Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio, Volume 2 (1921)
Other Related Collections:
Shotwell Family Papers, Ohio Historical Society, MSS 225
Walter B. Shotwell Papers, Harrison County Historical Society
Extent
2 items
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Creator
- Dewey, Chauncey, 1796-1880 (Person)
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections Repository
Arthur J. Morris Law Library
580 Massie Road
University of Virginia
Charlottesville Virginia 22903 United States
archives@law.virginia.edu